Breakdown in Order when Gay Marriage legalised

by **A Person** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 5:04 pm

To all those predicting a breakdown of order if gay marriage is legalised - you're right

New Zealand just changed their definition of marriage and look at what happened.

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by **Liv** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 7:08 pm

That is just amazing!

To think, New Zealand (from my understanding) is quite a conservative nation too.

by **A Person** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 7:27 pm

Not by American standards. Sensible and practical perhaps.

Could this guy ever get elected in the USA? Poking fun at the idea of Hell and celibate priests ...

by **Liv** » Wed Apr 17, 2013 9:29 pm

Now you've got me curious. I've still yet to have gone to Ireland, and have always considered it very conservative. I realize much of the law is under the U.K., and E.U..... but who is more conservative in your opinion, Ireland or the U.S.?

by **A Person** » Thu Apr 18, 2013 1:07 am

The USA without doubt. Ireland was held back by the Catholic Church, but in the last decade the church has lost a huge amount of influence. Ireland was a very socially repressive state due to the influence of the church, but the population is a lot more enlightened. The USA is a secular state but the population (or at least a large proportion of it) is socially repressed (and repressing)

Ireland had a brief flirt with supply side economics (you may remember how thesumofyourfears lauded Ireland for lowering business taxes) which resulted in a disastrous deficit for them. Since then they've become a lot more Keynesian.